Prior Quality Considerations

HydroClass uses standard IRIS/RDA measurands as input, and their quality thresholds propagate into HydroClass quality thresholds.

In addition, the Preclassifier of non-meteorological versus precipitation echoes (JPOLE algorithm) is used as a prior quality factor to the hydrometeor classifier (CSU algorithm) by passing in the bins classified as meteorological echoes by JPOLE, only.